School Code • Collective Bargaining Agreements • Distressed School Law • “Teachers’ Contracts”

Phila. Fed’n of Teachers v. Sch. Dist., PICS Case No. 16-1024 (Pa. Aug. 15, 2016) Saylor, C.J. (24 pages).

Commonwealth court properly found that insofar as teachers were concerned, collective bargaining agreements were “teachers’ contracts” and were excepted from a school reform commission’s cancellation powers based on the construction of the term “teachers’ contracts” in §693(a)(1). Affirmed.